River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-30
Difference in NIlk.

One of our friehds explained that a
few days ago he put an equal quantity
! OF new milk from each Of his cows in
glass tumblers and set them all in cold
water to see which cows were good for
cream and which were worthless. This
is an experiment which costs nothing
and it would be well for every farmer
TO thus test his COWS, yet while the
result is interesting IL Is not necessarily
conclusive, as equal quantities of cream
do not always yield equal quantities of
butter.
In the case above referred to we were
told that, as the water was very cold
the cream IN al Inc ,unblefs except
one, rose i'll II hours, but in that one
il was "a hours in raising. and the
question was, is there any difference
in milk from different COWS which caus-
es the cream to separate more readily
from some samples than from others,
and if 50, what is that dilIerence!'
ANS: There is such a difference in
milk from different cows. As to the
nature of that difference w. d. Hoard
in the "Dairyman" speaks as follows:
AS arule cows that give large
glObule will make butter much hrmer
in body. The Jersey, Devon and
Guernsey. as breeds, excel in this par.
ticular. Yet cows in all breeds can be
found which yield milk with so small
Il butter globule as to make a soft,
mushy butter. The size of the butter
globule has a marked effect upon quick
ness OF Dreaming and chuIning. as well
as the tirmuess OF the butter. We have
seen cows that gave milk with a good
percentage of butter fat, where the
globule was SO small that a considera.
ble portion OF the fat would remain in
suspension in the surrounding medium
and woIld not rise in double the time
sufficient for ordinary milk. Such
milk can be most prolltably used in the
cheese vat or in fattening veal calves,
for even if the cream could be thor
oughly separated, it would not make
butter of good grain.
Last winter the farmers of Grant,
Iowa and La Fayette counties in Wis
cOnsin, bought hundreds of tons of
Iowa prairie hay for which they paid |
as high as eight and nine dollars ton. |
A few OF them concluded that one such |
lesson was enough for them and tile |
past spring found them planting fodder |
corn to guard against another loss of |
that character. But the point we wish |
to make is that bran contains at least |
four times as much nutriment as prai- |
RE hay. Had these farmers bought |
bran even at winter prices. they would |
have laid out their money much more |
judiciously. Here is one of the places |
where little knowledge Of the science
of cattle foods and their comparative |
values would have helped them great
ly."
A Swiss dsiryman of experience |
gives the Home Stock and Farm the |
method of sailing milk cows as prac-
ticed 10y the best daiTymen of his /
country. The cows are sailed every /
and if they are fed in the |
stable the salt is given before fodder
ing. 1t is claimed that sailing in this |
way improves the appetite of the cows,
and that they give more milk than
when sailed in the usual way The
informant thinks 1t very in uriouS to
salt mllch COWS but once Oh twice a
week, as they will eat too much at one
time and drink too much for the day.
Throwing the cows little salt in the
morning. he claims, is much better
than allowing them TO have free access
to it at times. In Switzerland cows
are never sailed after taking water if
they are to have no chance TO drink for
several hours, for the probable conse-
queut thirst will of itself operate to
depreciate the quality of milk and less
Ell the quantity. These facts we have
learned from one of the best and most
successful stock keepers IN Switzerland
and he has found by repeated expert
ment in his own practice that it is the
best course to adopt.